Maxwell Taylor's Cold War: From Berlin to Vietnam

by Ingo Trauschweizer

Book Overview

General Maxwell Taylor served at the nerve centers of US military policy and Cold War strategy and experienced firsthand the wars in Korea and Vietnam, as well as crises in Berlin and Cuba. Along the way he became an adversary of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's nuclear deterrence strategy and a champion of President John F. Kennedy's shift toward Flexible Response. Taylor also remained a public critic of defense policy and civil-military relations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813177006
• ISBN13: 9780813177007
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up